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Also on the Logs 02.19.15

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 07:22

East Hampton



Melvyn Aarons, 77, called police last week after Bank of America told him someone had attempted to open an account from a computer in Islip using his Social Security number. The potential thief, however, entered an old address for Mr. Aarons, which led the bank to decline the application and begin an investigation. Mr. Aarons was told to contact the Federal Trade Commission and Equifax, the credit-reporting agency.

An argument over an obstacle in the street on Neighborhood House Road last week prompted police to warn one of the participants to stay away from the other. Carrie Gilbert called police on Feb. 10, worried that the other person in the dispute might damage her vehicle.



East Hampton Village



Ice flying off a truck transporting a PODS unit, one of the popular drop-off storage bins, prompted police to pull over the vehicle on Main Street in front of the Palm restaurant on Feb. 9. Police issued a summons for a nonfunctioning taillight, and the driver was told to clear the ice from the roof before continuing to drive.



Two white 2015 Dodge vans showed up in the Police Department parking lot on Cedar Street on Friday afternoon. A brief investigation revealed that Enterprise Rent-a-Car had meant to deliver the vans to the nearby East Hampton Flowers shop, which was gearing up for Valentine’s Day. The florist moved the vans.



Police were called to the Huntting Inn on Main Street on Valentine’s Day, when a Port Washington woman said that her Louis Vuitton Neverfull handbag had been damaged by the inn’s staff when her bags were taken from her room to her car. A manager told an officer that if the woman presented an estimate for a repair, “they would take care of it.” The bags are listed on the company’s website starting at $1,260.



Wainscott



A Wainscott couple received an unexpected, unwanted post-Christmas greeting when they returned to their East Gate Road house after taking a vacation from Dec. 27 to Jan. 17. Greg Higgins and his partner, Edgar Alvarez, returned to a house in which “the guest bed looks to have been slept in, downstairs TV appeared to be moved slightly, and Christmas lights were on,” a police report said. There was no sign of forced entry. The two have rented the house seasonally in the past, according to real estate websites. Mr. Alvarez said that the intruder had damaged a metal coffee-measuring cup. Police are investigating.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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